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Jennifer Buckman, Ph.D. is an active research scientist at the Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health, School of Arts and Sciences, working as part of a team of researchers to study the automatic physiological processes that interfere with conscious experience and support maladaptive lifestyle choices (e.g., drinking more than intended).

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• Clinical trial of breathing interventions for parenting women in treatment for a substance use disorder
• Experimental study of how health behaviors during college influence the cardiovascular system

Leganes-Fonteneau, M., Bates, M.E., Pawlak, A., & Buckman, J.F. (in press). Alcohol effects on emotion, an interoceptive disruption? Phase I In Principle Acceptance of Registered Report. Drug & Alcohol Dependence.

Eddie, D., Price, J.L., Bates, M.E., & Buckman, J.F. (in press) Substance use and addiction affect more than the brain: the promise of neurocardiac interventions. Current Addiction Reports.

Bates, M.E., Price, J., & Buckman, J.F. (in press). Neuropsychological and biological influences on drinking behavior change. In Pathways to Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder. Editors: K. Witzkiewitz and J.A. Tucker. Cambridge University Press.

Remchak, M., Piersol, K., Bhatti, S., Spaeth, A., Buckman, J.F, Malin, S. (2021) Considerations for maximizing the exercise “drug” to combat insulin resistance: role of nutrition, sleep, and alcohol. Nutrients, 13(5): 1708.

Leganes-Fonteneau, M., Bates, M.E., Vaschillo, E.G., & Buckman, J.F. (2021). An interoceptive basis for alcohol priming effects. Psychopharmacology 238(6): 1621-1631.

Leganes-Fonteneau, M., Buckman, J., Pawlak, A., Vaschillo, B., Vaschillo, E., & Bates, M.E. (2021). Interoceptive mechanisms of alcohol cognitive biases: Role of family history and alliesthetic components. Addiction Biology, 26(3): e12952.

Leganes-Fonteneau, M., Buckman, J.F., Suzuki, K., Pawlak, A., & Bates, M.E. (2021). More than meets the heart: Systolic amplification of different emotional faces is task dependent. Cognition and Emotion, 35(2): 400-408.

Leganes-Fonteneau, M., Buckman, J.F., Islam, S., Pawlak, A., Vaschillo, B., Vaschillo, E.G., & Bates, M.E. (2020, Accepted, Phase I In Principle Acceptance of Registered Report). The cardiovascular mechanisms of interoceptive awareness: Effects of resonance breathing. International Journal of Psychophysiology.

Eddie, D., Bates, M.E., & Buckman, J.F. (2020). Closing the loop between heart and brain: A more holistic neurobiological model of addiction and addiction recovery. Addiction Biology, ePub Ahead of Print.

Bates, M.E., Mun, E.Y., Buckman, J.F., Vaschillo, E., Vaschillo, B., Lehrer, P., Udo, T., & Lesnewich, L.M. (2020). Getting to the heart of low sensitivity to alcohol: Context moderates suppressed cardiovascular adaptation to oral alcohol in persons with a family history of alcohol use disorder. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 44(3), 589-599.

Director, Department of Kinesiology & Health’s Honors in Research Program
Teaches: Cannabis: From Counterculture to Cure-all (01:377:360); Honors Research Seminar (01:377:480)